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ACLU speaker says courts will decide state’s remap battle, notes competing lawsuits in different court systems – Chippewa Valley Post
By David Gordon, associate editor Wisconsin’s current redistricting battle will almost certainly be decided by the courts, but the question is which court? Wendy Sue Johnson, a local activist on gerrymandering concerns, discussed this issue and related topics when she+ spoke online last week at a program sponsored by the Chippewa Valley chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Her comments came a day before the state Assembly passed the Republican voting map bill and sent it to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has pledged to veto it. That would throw the issue of the coming decade’s voting district lines into the court system, where both Republicans and Democrats have active lawsuits that each were filed before the Legislature took even the first step toward dealing with drawing new electoral maps. To read more on this topic, please click on the headline.
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